Lucknow: E-rickshaws banned on 36 more routes

LUCKNOW: The plying of erickshaws will be discontinued on 36 more routes in the city to ease traffic flow. Traffic department has already restricted the movement of battery operated e-rickshaws on 10 main routes as they cause traffic snarls. Now this count will go to 46.
“The routes will be finalised and movement of e-rickshaws restricted on them by second week of January,” said ARTO enforcement, Lucknow, Sanjeev Gupta.The drive against e-rickshaws is a joint exercise of the transport department and traffic police. Once implemented almost entire city will be free of congestion due to e-rickshaws.

The city has 17,000 registered e-rickshaws. E-rickshaws, as per the guidelines, are given the permit to operate only on the feeder routes and within a colony. They are meant to connect an arterial route with the main road and not ply on the main roads.